Robert Eggers Quotes

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

Magic is at the core of myths.

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, movies, museums, schools, etc.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.

I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

I am attracted to myths.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

Folk tales, fairy tales, religion, the occult - these are the things I'm most passionate about, even more than cinema. And I'm very passionate about cinema.

Witches were part of my imaginary childhood playground, so I wanted to make an archetypal fairytale about the mythic idea of what New England was to me as a kid.

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.